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How to delete the Name field from Registration?

Swennet
Participant

@swennet

8 years, 8 months ago

I’ve done a lot of searching but did not find a complete answer on how to do this.

Basically, I want users to sign up with a Username, Email and Password. I want to disable the BuddyPress “Name” field (which is required).

The Display Name for every user will be the same as their username.

Every answer I found suggests using Javascript to hide this field. This seems like a terrible solution to me.

How can I completely disable the required Name field from the registration and profile pages?

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Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

8 years, 8 months ago

Right now, you can’t. It’s a mandatory and required field, and very much hardcoded throughout BuddyPress.

You *might* be able to not show the form if you replace the sign-up process with a Gravity Form (I think that’s it — one of the form plugins). I know @dimensionmedia has done this; I’m not sure he regularly reads these forums, but if he does, hopefully he’ll clarify if I’ve remembered correctly.

I suspect even if that is an option, you’ll still need to programatically set the name field to something.

David Bisset
Participant

@dimensionmedia

8 years, 8 months ago

Using Gravity Forms is one solution, yes. It’s easy once you have the plugin itself PLUS the “user registration” plugin they offer which i think is open only for the developer license. It completely replaces the BuddyPress registration form. I use it for a variety of sites that need more complex registration forms (there of course is a tradeoff, but one of the pluses is that Gravity Forms are rock solid against registration spam).

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